Thursday, November 27, 2025

Secteurs de la syndication de résultats de recherche et de la publicité en ligne : l’Autorité de la concurrence rejette la saisine au fond et la demande de mesures conservatoires formulées par la société Qwant à l’encontre de Microsoft

 Adlc, ici.

Plus que de véritables affrontements concurrentiels, le phénomène semble s’apparenter à une forme de connivence structurelle. Et les autres acteurs du marché ne semblent tirer aucun bénéfice de cette prétendue compétition...


Tristan Harris, the ultimate (literally?) Cassandra

 The Diary of a CEO, here.

If you listen carefully to Tristan Harris, it becomes crystal clear why the usual suspects are so opposed to the whole bunch of EU digital regulation that matters.


The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

 NYT, here

Path to European Competitiveness and Sovereignty? Ask OpenAI, Microsoft and Booking

 Commenting on a CERRE Report, here.

Perhaps they also asked somebody else, later, but sorry: I can't watch any further. 

Open Is Sovereign: Why Europe’s Digital Future Must Be Built on Global Open Source Ecosystems

 Linux Foundation, here.

Coincidence? Google is increasingly closing Android, as we heard last week at the Article 19 Conference

"Though still nascent, agentic AI could significantly reshape competition..."

 OECD, here.

Tbd today, Trento U. 

Recipes for digital sovereignty in a changing geopolitical landscape

 Barcelona, whereelse here.

CO-OPERATIVE ANTITRUST IN REMEDY DESIGN

 OECD, Background Paper here.

I had expected rather more. Consumer associations were barely mentioned, and broader civil society did not appear at all. But, of course,why change course, given how extraordinarily effective our remedies have been so far? A veritable Sternstunde of antitrust, especially in digital markets...


First EU Member State to pass law prohibiting price-fixing algorithms? Can't wait

 Here.